Saturday, 22 February 2014

Brain scans of jazz musicians unveil language and music similarities

Jazz fans will know that a defining characteristic of the genre - whose greats include Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus - are the spontaneous "musical conversations" that spark up when members of a jazz band improvise. This improvisation bears similarity to human speech, with the players often taking it in turns to trade lines that build up into a dialogue. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, have found that the brain interprets music and language in a similar way, by scanning the brains of improvising jazz musicians. via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..


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